Cognitive Digital Twin for Building Management Systems: a case study in Rome

The concept of “digital twin” is moving beyond manufacturing and industrial sectors configuring virtual models and ICT (Information Comunication Technology) systems for improved real-time data-driven management of physical assets, developing data-centric processes supporting design, construction, and operation phases. The configuration of Digital Twins is gradually becoming useful even in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) sector, connecting physical objects such as buldings and their digital equivalent through ICT systems. Infact, thanks to the so-called Key Enabling Technologies (KET) of Industry 4.0 and their progressive evolution (i.e. Cloud, BIM, GIS, Big Data, Internet of Things, High-speed Networking, Advanced Analytics, Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Augmented and Mixed Reality etc.) the effective exchange of data from virtual to physical assets becomes possible. In particular, the configuration of digital ecosystems for the built environment leads to the creation of three-dimensional information models with BIM (Building Information Modeling) approaches aiming at real-time management and monitoring of the interactions between digitized objects and their physical equivalent, creating new scenarios for efficient digital processes.